| No. of letters | Region | Pop. (in millions) | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [—] | 19.1 | First letter of Russia's most populous city | M | 100%
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| 10 | [—] | 5.60 | Second largest city in Russia – Saint _______ | Petersburg | 74%
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| 3 | Bashkortostan | 1.12 | Est. 1574 on the orders of Ivan the Terrible | Ufa | 74%
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| 2 | Novosibirsk | 0.03 | Town named for large river that runs beside it | Ob | 63%
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| 8 | [—] | 0.27 | World's largest city above the Arctic Circle | Murmansk | 58%
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| 13 | Sverdlovsk | 1.54 | Metropolis named for Empress Catherine the Great | Yekaterinburg | 58%
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| 9 | [—] | 1.16 | Largest city in South Russia; on the River Kuban | Krasnodar | 47%
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| 11 | [—] | 0.30 | Est. 1584; Russia's first international port | Arkhangelsk | 42%
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| 5 | Zabaykalsky | 0.33 | Settled on namesake branch of the Ingoda River | Chita | 37%
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| 12 | Krasnodar | 0.26 | Large Black Sea port; lit. "New Russia" | Novorossiysk | 37%
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| 4 | [—] | 1.13 | Settled on namesake branch of the Irtysh River | Omsk | 37%
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| 16 | Sakhalin | 0.18 | Largest Russian city in formerly Japanese territory | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 37%
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| 15 | Amur | 0.23 | lit. "The City of the Annunciation"; opposite Heihe, CN | Blagoveshchensk | 32%
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| 17 | Tatarstan | 0.55 | City home to the world's largest car factory | Naberezhnye-Chelny | 32%
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| 23 | Kamchatka | 0.17 | Russia's easternmost major city (100k+ pop.) | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | 32%
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| 6 | [—] | 0.85 | Est. 1586; Russia's first Siberian settlement | Tyumen | 32%
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| 7 | Altai (Krai) | 0.63 | Historic mining city rich in copper and silver | Barnaul | 26%
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| 14 | Khanty-Mansi | 0.28 | Second largest city in K-M; known for oil boom | Nizhnevartovsk | 21%
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| 18 | Rostov | 0.08 | On the Donets River; ~10 mi east of Ukraine | Kamensk-Shakhtinsky | 0%
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| 19 | Zabaykalsky | 0.02 | On the Balyaga River and Trans-Siberian Railway | Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky | 0%
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| 22 | Altai (Rep.) | <0.01 | lit. "Leeward of the Tyolyos (Tribe) Lake" | Podvetrenno-Teleutskoye | 0%
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| 24 | Krasnodar | 0.01 | Quaint village with WWII museum founded 1794 | Staronizhestebliyevskaya | 0%
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| 25 | Amur | <0.01 | lit. "Upper Section of the City of the Annunciation" | Verkhneblagoveshchenskoye | 0%
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| 21 | Sverdlovsk | 0.01 | lit. "Upper Banks of the Sinyachikhi" | Verkhnyaya-Sinyachikha | 0%
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| 20 | Irkutsk | 0.03 | One of Russia's largest open iron mine cities | Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky | 0%
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